some of the interesting quotes from a book i ws reading:

"the people of England decieve themselves when they fancy they are free; they are so, in fact, only during the election of members of pariliament: for, as soon as a new one is elected, they are again in chains, and are nothing. And thus, by the use they make of their brief moments of liberty, they deerve to lose it."
- Jean-Jacques Rosseau

"There is no reason that all human existance should be constructed on some one or some small number of patterns. If a person posses any tolerable amount of common sense and experience, his own mode of laying out his existance is the best, not because it is the best in itself, but because it is his own model. Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not indistinguishabky alike."
- John Stuart Mill

But do nations really exist? Or are they not just imagined but entirely imaginary? Is there anything that genuinely differentiates the people who live on one side of a national boundary from their counterparts on the other side? Dean Inge once said that 'a nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbours'.
-David Miller